David Nicol, PhD is the author of Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation, and the co-Founder and Executive Director of the Gaiafield Project and Institute for Subtle Activism. He is also co-founder of BeThePeace, one of the world’s largest global meditation events that occurs annually on the International Day of Peace (September 21). He teaches on subtle activism in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, for the Shift Network, and for the Institute for Subtle Activism. A former environmental lawyer from Australia, he now lives in Mendocino with his wife Kate and two dogs.